Event

The Department of Earth & Environmental Science

University of Pennsylvania

Invites you to attend a EES Seminar Series

Friday, November 4th - 3:00 PM

“Observing evolving ice sheet condition using multi-temporal radar sounding” 

Dr. Winnie Chu

Assistant Professor

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences 

Georgia Institute of Technology

I was born in Hong Kong. My academic journey began in 6th grade when I joined a summer exchange program in England, during which I realized that studying science could be fun and it's not just about rote learning. At age 13, I convinced my parent to let me return to the U.K, where I later attended University College London to study Geophysics to combine my love for physics and earth sciences. At UCL, I worked on the early development of CryoSAT with Seymour Laxon, who encouraged me to pursue research in Polar Science. This led to my move to America to pursue a Ph.D. in Earth & Environmental Sciences at Columbia University under the guidance of Robin Bell. My dissertation focused on using airborne ice-penetrating radar sounding to characterize Greenland hydrology. During my Ph.D., I spent a summer interning at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Radar Science Division to work with Dusty Schroeder and Helene Seroussi. I later worked with Dusty at Stanford University as a postdoctoral researcher. My experience at JPL shaped my interest in combining radar sounding and ice-sheet modeling. Since then, my research continues to focus on developing ways to push the boundaries on what geophysics and numerical methods together can tell us about the ice sheets. Since 2020, I have been a faculty member in the School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences as the head of the Glacier Geophysics Group.